GMS Host System Requirements

Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
2860 De La Cruz Blvd. Suite 100
Santa Clara, CA 95050
GMS Host System Requirements
1.877.210.7325 (toll-free in USA)
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www.silver-peak.com
September 5, 2014
The following table summarizes the recommended resources required by each virtual appliance model when deployed on a
standard server.
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When using vSphere 4.x with GMS-100 and above, a VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus license is needed for a virtual
machine to use the required 8 virtual processors.
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These requirements do not include the resources needed by the hypervisor itself, which will require additional dedicated
core, memory, and storage to operate.
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When using Hyper-V with GMS-100 and above, Windows Server 2012 is needed for a virtual machine to use the required
8 virtual processors.
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For non-VMware hypervisors, an extra core should be set aside for hypervisor tasks.
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It is necessary to ensure that CPU’s hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) feature is enabled in the BIOS, and BIOS
should be set to maximize performance. Please refer to the CPU vendor’s documentation for guidance on enabling VT in
the BIOS.
Processor Cores (>2 GHz)
Memory (Gigabytes)
Storage (Gigabytes)
Number of Supported
Appliances
Recommended
Range
Recommended
Range
Recommended
Range
VMware
Hyper-V
KVM
Xen
GMS-10
Up to 10
2
1 – 4
4
2 – 16
100
100 – 1000
ü
ü
ü
ü
1 disk
GMS-25
Up to 25
2
1 – 4
4
2 – 16
100
100 – 1000
ü
ü
ü
ü
1 disk
GMS-50
Up to 50
2
1 – 4
8
4 – 32
200
100 – 1000
ü
ü
ü
ü
3 disk RAID 5 or 4 disk RAID 10
GMS-100
Up to 100
4
2 – 8
16
8 – 32
400
200 – 1000
ü
ü
ü
ü
4 disk RAID 5 or 6 disk RAID 10
GMS-200
Up to 200
8
4 – 12
24
16 – 32
800
400 – 1200
ü
ü
ü
ü
5 disk RAID 5 or 8 disk RAID 10
Model
Recommended Storage Configuration
GMS-500
Up to 500
12
8 – 16
32
24 – 48
1000
800 – 2000
ü
ü
ü
ü
6 disk RAID 5 or 10 disk RAID 10
GMS-1000
Up to 1000
24
16 – 32
64
32 – 96
1000
800 – 2000
ü
ü
ü
ü
6 disk RAID 5 or 10 disk RAID 10
GMS-2000
Up to 2000
24
16 – 32
64
32 – 96
1000
800 – 2000
ü
ü
ü
ü
6 disk RAID 5 or 10 disk RAID 10
Supported Hypervisor Versions
Hypervisor
vSphere 4.0 Update 1 & later
vSphere 5
Hardware Compatibility List
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
Hyper-V 2008 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816844(WS.10).aspx
Hyper-V 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831531.aspx
XenServer 6
http://hcl.vmd.citrix.com/
KVM
http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE/opensuse-kvm/cha.kvm.requires.html
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